Sonia Dias
@soniawiego
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Garbologist, Political Scientist PhD. WIEGO's global waste specialist. Political views are my own.
Brazil
Joined May 2011
This year long project will monitor in near real time the impacts of extreme weather events on waste picker cooperatives across six Brazilian cities focusing on damage to the infrastructure of sorting spaces, working conditions and income.
wiego.org
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🚨 ALERTA! Hoje (21) tem votação no @SenadoFederal do #PLdaDevastação, que destrói o Licenciamento Ambiental! O resultado? DESCONTROLE AMBIENTAL! . Não podemos permitir! Marque o presidente do Senado @davialcolumbre e peça a retirada da pauta! .
pldadevastacao.org
Pressione agora contra o desmonte do licenciamento ambiental
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RT @UniShefPlayer: Recycling is about more than waste - it’s about people. 🌍. Explore the lives of waste pickers in Brazil through striking….
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Dia Internacional dos Catadores um dia de luta e para reconhecer o papel desempenhado pelos Catadore-as na mitigação de GEE/On this International Waste Pickers Day let us remember the important role waste pickers play in GHG mitigation. Here results for Belo Horizonte city
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Cientistas estimam o fim da biosfera.
olhardigital.com.br
Estudiosos projetam como o aquecimento solar e a redução do dióxido de carbono impactarão a biosfera da Terra, revelando o futuro do planeta.
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Revisiting a hug time of women wastepickers group Bonitas in one of @WIEGOGLOBAL gender and waste project workshops. Affection/care cannot be ignored in politics and research action. In the embrace two women from the National Movement of Waste Pickers of Brazil @catadoresmncr
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"This year has been especially challenging for India’s urban informal workers, who have had to contend with extreme weather events and climate-related health risks" @WIEGOGLOBAL .
citizenmatters.in
As COP29 discusses ways to mitigate the climate crisis, India must address the adversities faced by informal workers and chalk out plans.
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WIEGO is a proud member of the Global Platform Right to the City. Happy 10th Anniversary @Right2CityGP
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RT @espinosamente: 📣📣 Si te interesa conocer sobre el trabajo (invisible y esencial) de lxs recicladorxs de base👷🏽♀️ en la recuperación de….
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Packaging companies flout rules on waste picker payments via @capetownetc.
capetownetc.com
Thousands of waste pickers, who are responsible for the bulk of recycling in South Africa, are not getting paid for their work, though regulations for their payment were gazetted more than three...
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RT @Spanish_Revo: "Perdónanos". Las palabras de Omar Hamad, un farmacéutico de Gaza, resuenan con una mezcla desgarradora de dolor y resign….
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Our heartfelt thanks to The Urban Institute for the partnership on mapping climate change impacts on waste pickers and with the CATA photo exhibit in Sheffield and Belo Horizonte (Brazil).
Living & working in a changing climate: waste pickers' experience . A print + sound exhibition featuring the work of @soniawiego & @sleepsang @VaneBailo at the Festival of the Mind, Spiegeltent on 26 Sept, 2pm. Info:
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I am momentarily back to X while I am abroad (Brazil rightly banned X for lack of transparency and accountability). I am delighted to speak at #PLASYS24 in Rhodes
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"Our measurements show that the solid earth that forms the base of the Antarctic ice sheet is changing shape surprisingly quickly," said Wilson. "The land uplift from reduced ice on the surface is happening in decades, rather than over thousands of years.".
sciencedaily.com
The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise, a new study suggests.
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Sharing and learning from others about climate change impacts on workers - formal and informal. It is key to focus on CC impacts at workspaces.
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Please help Kampala waste pickers impacted by the collapse of Kiteesi dumpsite.
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Gender & Waste: 2 days of leadership coaching. It is imperative to have not only formative moments but also moments of care for the leaders that bear the brunt of holding their collectives together. A safe space to deal with conflicts and explore possibilities is crucial
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Down the memory lane:my time as public officer at the Cleaning Agency of Belo Horizonte city in the 1990's. Such an honor to serve my city and make history SWM
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